{"id":7731,"date":"2018-12-19T22:58:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T22:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionhealth.weareiceberg.co\/?p=636"},"modified":"2023-03-15T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:00:51","slug":"what-is-the-blue-button-2-0-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionhealth.com\/uk\/blog\/what-is-the-blue-button-2-0-api\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Blue Button 2.0 API?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue Button 2.0<\/a> is an API from the Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS<\/a>) that incorporates data for 53 million beneficiaries. It contains four years of data that reveals information about the health of each individual, including the Medicare plan they are on right through to the primary care and medicines they receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is an initiative in the U.S. to link claims data from Medicare and make this available to the consumers \u2013 i.e. the people who the claim was about. The Blue Button 2.0 API uses the HL7\u00ae FHIR\u00ae standard<\/a> as the format and OAuth 2.0 standard<\/a> and SMART<\/a> as the authorisation mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developers can integrate with the Blue Button 2.0 API which will help individual patients and healthcare organisations to access and monitor health information in one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to connect to the Blue Button 2.0 API<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look at how to connect to the Blue Button 2.0 API using the SMART client that we discussed in a previous blog<\/a>. There are 2 things we need to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n